Privacy Statement

Contact Form
If you send us any requests through our contact form, all of the date entered, including your contact details, will be stored in order to be able to process your request and answer any subsequent questions. We will not forward your data without your consent.

Newsletter
If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, we need your e-mail address plus information which allow us to check whether you are the owner of the e-mail address entered and whether you agree to receive our newsletter. No other data will be collected. We shall use these data only for sending the requested information and will not forward it to any third party.
Your agreement to storing your data, your e-mail address and to using them to send you our newsletter can be revoked at any time.

Cookies
The internet page may use so-called cookies. Cookies are not harmful to your system and do not contain any computer viruses. Cookies are targeted at making our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your system through your browser. Most of the cookies used are so-called “session cookies”. They will be deleted automatically after you have left our site. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them proactively. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you return to our site. You can setup your browser in a way so that it informs you about placing cookies, and allows you to accept cookies only on a case-by-case basis, or for certain defined cases, or not at all; you can also activate automated deletion of cookies on closing your browser. If you deactive cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Server Log Files
The provider of these websites automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files which your browser transfers automatically to us. They are: browser type, browser version, operating system in use, referrer URL, host name of the accessing computer and time of the server request. These data cannot be assigned to certain individuals. The data are not being consolidated with other data sources. We retain the right for later checks on these data if we have concrete evidence for illegal use.

Web Analysis
In order to tailor our website according to marketing needs, we generate pseudonymous user profiles leveraging Google Analytics. Google Analystics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files which are being stored on your computer and allow the analysis of your usage of the website. The information about your usage of the website is normally transferred to and stored on a Google server in the USA. Since we have, however, activated IP anonymization on this website, your IP address is being truncated by Google according to agreements between members of the European Union or other contractual states of the agreement on the European Economic Area. Your full IP address will only be transmitted in full into the USA and truncated afterwards in exceptional cases. Google will use this information to evaluate the usage of the website for us, to put together reports on website activities, and to provide further services to us connected to the usage of the website and the internet. You can object to the creation of pseudonymous user profiles at any time. There are several possibilities to do so: 1.) One possibility to object to the web analysis by Google Analytics is to set an opt-out cookie which directs Google to not save or use your data for means of web analysis. Please, keep in mind that this solution will only prevent web analysis as long as the opt-out cookie is being stored by the browser. If you want to set the opt-out cookie now, please, click here. 2.) You can also prevent the storage of profile information cookies by setting the corresponding setup in your brower software. 3.) Depending on the browser you use, you have the possibility to install a browser plug-in which prevents this kind of tracking. To do so, please, click here and install the downloadable browser plug-in. You will find further information in regard to terms and conditions and privacy protection under google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or under google.de/intl/de/policies/. We would like to make you aware of the fact that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the Code “anonymizeIP” in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

SSL Encryption
This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content like, e.g., the requests that you send to us. You can recognize an encrypted connection by noticing how the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://”, or by the lock icon in your address bar. When SSL encryption is active, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by a third party.

Information, Deletion, Suspension
You have the right to gratuitous information in regard to your stored personal data, their source and recipient and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete these data at any time. In regard to this and further questions on the topic of personal data, you can contact us at any time through the address specified on the imprint page.

Objection to Promotional Mails
We hereby object explicitely to the utilization of contact data published in accordance with the imprint obligation, the German Telemedia Act and other legal requirements. The operators of these pages explicitely reserve their rights to take legal measures in the case of unsolicited consignation of commercial information, like e.g. by means of spam e-mails.

Disclaimer

Liability for Content
The content of our site has been put together with utmost diligence. We can, however, take no responsibility for the correctness, completeness and timeliness of the content. As a service provider we are responsible for the content of theses pages according to common law subject to § 7 para. 1 TMG. According to §§ 8 to 10 TMB we are, however, not responsible as a service provider to monitor transmitted or stored external information or to search for evidence which may point to illegal activities. An obligation to delete or block the use of information according to common law is not affected by that. A corresponding liability is, however, only possible from the moment at which a concrete infringement of applicable law has become evident. If such infringements of law become known, we shall remove these contents immediately.

Liability for Links
Our offer includes links to external websites of third parties the content of which lies beyond our influence. Therefore we cannot accept any responsibility for external content. The respective owner or provider of linked pages is responsible for their content. The linked pages have been checked for possible infringements of applicable law at the time they were being linked to. Illegal content has not been evident at that time. A permanent content check of linked pages is, however, not reasonable without concrete evidence for infringement of applicable laws. If such infringements of law become known, we shall remove these links immediately.

Copyright
The contents and works generated by the provider of these pages are subject to German copyright. Duplication, editing, publication and any form of utilization outside the boundaries of copyright need the express written consent of the respective author or originator. Downloads and copies of thes page is only allowed for private, non-commerical use. For content not generated by the operator of this page, third party copyright has been respected. In particular, content provided by third party copyright is identified. If you should come upon any infringement of copyright nonetheless, we ask you to alert us to it. If such infringements of law become known, we shall remove these contents immediately.